SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kopi Luwak, Pierre Bourdieu, Starbucks
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People creatively shape reality as they interact with one another in the context of a certain social group or culture : what is the sociological imagination, spit: men spit more than women. When people arrange to have a coffee date they are more interested to get to know one another instead of going to drink coffee: use as a drug. Coffee has a stimulating effect on the brain. Many people drink coffee for the extra lift . In some cultures, the drinking of coffee is frowned upon: social and economic relationships. Global enterprise (importing and exporting of coffee) Many individuals, groups, organizations, and cultures: past social & economic development. Coffee relationships that have been set in motion were not always there. Coffee started becoming popular in western hemisphere relatively recently. Relation to trade and colonization: consumer choices or tastes . Pierre bourdieu, his idea that taste is not a product of freewill. Good taste = high class vice versa (cavier)
